Even given the bizarre identification angle—the protagonist is an alcoholic blogger (!)—Showtime's David Duchovny vehicle
Californication was a pretty godawful show, unless you were so hard up for softcore that you needed to suffer through 20 minute jags of undercooked family drama. But we assumed, like the rest of Americans moderately familiar with turn of the millennium alt-rock, that the show had either cleared the punny name with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who slapped it on one of their weakest singles in 1999, or that
Californication was a commonly used West Coast reference. Apparently neither, because Anthony Keidis' TiVo (and attorneys) finally caught up with Showtime this week.
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Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman ordered to pay $222,000 to the majors for engaging in 
Remy Ma—née Remy Smith—was sentenced to eight years in jail for a July shooting outside a New York nightclub yesterday, a sentence that resulted in Remy's fiancé Papoose (birth name: Shamele Mackie) swearing at court officers, overturning a nearby garbage can, and daring the guards to lock him up—hey, conjugal visits are out of the question for now, so why not. The sentencing was preceded by a weeping Remy telling the judge that her larger-than-life persona was merely a figment of the media's imagination, and that it was created by record executives for the purposes of moving product:
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